Sorry for the vanity, but I wanted to get this out there in its own thread rather than go through and post it as a response on all of the threads on this subject. A number of media outlets have gone to great lengths today to point out that the e-mails in question that led to yesterday's announcement "weren't sent to or from Hillary Clinton." I've seen variations of this theme from many of these reports. It's important to note that this particular point is irrelevant, and the fact that there is so much focus on it tells me that...

Ted Cruz has shot himself in the foot big time with his ill thought out ranting about hating New Yorkers. It's the same kind of rant that someone would make about "Red Necks" in any southern state, ill advised and unacceptable. The Cruz verbage is proof that Cruz will do or say anything true or untrue to gain power and control. He is really not-too-bright-in-th brain-department. He is far from Presidential material!!! For goodness sake....the fool, Ted Cruz, has no clue as to how he is being used by the GOP Establishment for "their" purposes, not his. Does anyone really...

A brilliant female author pointed out that no issue is more urgent right now than immigration. In a word: checkmate. It affects voter fraud, voter disenfranchizement, free speech, terrorism, fiscal responsibility, and ultimately even the federal judiciary. And to expose Cruz on this issue I must first deconstruct the Big Lie he's been hiding behind. How many times have you heard that Trump is just a latecomer on immigration? People who repeat that malicious slander actually mean well for the USA. Cruz reshapes their own patriotism like a political 'plastic explosive' to spread hatred and and lies. Trump's books consistently...

I KNOW I AM GOING TO GET FLACK..I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT NAY-SAYERS. I Am disappointed in our recent leadership. This is our country we are talking about... LEADERSHIP: MY NEW VISION OF D.C:...STRONG LEADERS - THE STRONGEST WE HAVE DONALD/CHRISTIE: DONALD TRUMP (PRESIDENT) - CHRIS CRISTIE (VICE PRESIDENT) IMMIGRATION: I 100% AGREE WITH THE BUILDING OF THE WALL. BUT WE DON'T BUILD IT.. THEY BUIDL IT.. ON THEIR WAY HOME THEY HAVE TO PICK UP AND PLACE A BRICK AND TROWEL AND PLACE A BRICK INTO THE WALL REPRESENTING THEIR TRESPASSING. THE WALL WOULD NOT BE SO BIG IF...

Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large aerial bombing done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.[1][2][3][4] The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area, in the same way that a carpet covers a floor. Carpet bombing is usually achieved by dropping many unguided bombs. The term obliteration bombing is sometimes used to describe especially intensified bombing with the intention of destroying a city or a large part of the city.[5] The term area bombing refers to indiscriminate bombing of an area,[5] and also encompasses...

Since the holiday break, Cruz campaign donation solicitations have been ubiquitous. Today I received a phone solicitation. The caller was very polite and in that respect represented the Cruz campaign well.The spiel was that if I donate any amount, no matter how little, it would be tripled by some other donor. I asked who that other donor is, and that I was concerned if that person gave three times as much as I did, they'd have three times the impact. The caller said he'd check with an advisor and get back to me.He did so. The answer was that for...

And to no surprise, we haven't and probably wont hear from John Kerry regarding this record cold/arctict outbreak that is gradually wreaking havoc in a very cold way throughout Central America and spreading. Now, didn't "Secretary Of State" claim to all of us that "Global Warming/Climate Change is real"?. Maybe John Kerry needs to make another "Global Warming Speech" somewhere in Colorado, Oklahoma, Montana and maybe even Northern Texas, and then explain his theory that we are experiencing Global Warming As We Speak !!.

What better way to fight fire with fire.Being the Democrats want to run against income inequality,why not have GOP candidates run on the same issue,and call it "Democrat Caused Income Inequality",and just keep running ads showing the nation how their policies have caused every economic hardship over half the nation has been bearing since 2008.And this will be along with the failure of Obama-Care. Then this would put the rats in a tailspin for the next two years.

The GOP attacks on Palin. After the Inauguration of Obama, the first time that the manhood of the GOP was called into question was the Stimulus package. Rick Santelli was so upset with it that he issued his now famous diatribe calling for something like a national tea party. A long simmering emotion within conservative ranks now had a name. Meanwhile, back in Alaska, Sarah Palin's return to work involved dealing with these stimulus package issues, and she did what she felt that she must. She took those which were appropriate, but turned away those that weren't. This was...

I recently posted an article suggesting that Mchele Bachmann's candidacy, and its impact on Sarah Palin, is reminiscent of the 1980 candidacy of Phil Crane, which Ronald Reagan considered a threat to his nomination: Is Michele Bachmann Sarah Palin's Phil Crane? LINKAs I point out in the article linked above, Crane never really thought he had a chance for the nomination, and he was content to have one of the moderates (Baker or Bush) get the nomination in hopes that they would install Crane as the Vice-Presidential nominee. I did not explore some of the reasons why Crane's belief was...

Here is the why Romney will be the republican nominee and why Perry or Cain or Bachmann will not save the republicans. Romney is moving left on global warming and staying the course on Romneycare and you will see him take his natural left positions on other issues as the campaign gets underway. His goal is to attract as many democrat voters into the republican open primaries as possible to vote for him. Meanwhile , Bachmann has been brought into the race by the establishment as well as Cain who has no idea. Perry is coming in too. This is...

On the day of the release of “Undefeated”, the new Sarah Palin movie, The Stakes are high indeed It’s an amazing, somewhat frightening time that we live in today. We are witnessing the slow but steady collapse of the US economic system that’s been in place since the end of WW2. Does anyone really think that gas prices won’t continue to rise? Energy prices won’t “necessarily skyrocket”? Housing prices won’t continue to crater? Foreclosures won’t continue to blight the entire housing market? On the World stage, the Arab Spring has become a scary echo of Europe circa 1938, with Jews...

As even the pundits are beginning to acknowledge, their two year long campaign to keep Sarah Palin out of the 2012 Presidential election has failed. She is going to run. Even the likes of Karl Rove acknowledge it at this point. Their strategy for stopping her will now shift in focus, but it will remain essentially the same. Smear and distract. The Establishment of both parties will continue the relentless ad hominems against her that have so far fallen like spent bullets at her feet. And they will try to distract her in any way possible by raising issues of...

I have been a casual observer of polls for over three decades, since early 1979 (about the same time in the 1980 election cycle as we find ourselves in the 2012 cycle) when Jimmy Carter was posting a 57-35 lead over Ronald Reagan in the respected Gallup poll. Carter maintained double digits leads over Reagan throughout 1979 and even into the spring of 1980, as the March 31, 1980 edition of time observed. ("National opinion polls continue to show Carter leading Reagan by an apparently comfortable margin of about 25%.") Early polls of general election contests (19 months out) are...

Governor Palin must be the GOP nominee because of energy. Energy will arguably be the top issue facing America in 2012. The rise in fuel prices also brings about a rise in commodity and food prices, as those products are trucked, shipped, and flown to their destinations. I work in transportation logistics, and I can tell you first hand that fuel prices are so high, drivers for most of the carriers my account is contracted to are refusing to haul freight unless they get additional money for fuel. There are over 6,000 products made from petroleum. Here is a partial...

We are within hours of Sarah Palin's speeech to the Indian conclave. I thought it would be interesting to look back at where Palin has come from and what the pundits, pollsters and history have said about her foreign affairs/national security qualifications or lack of qualifications: The top 10 quotes or events regarding Sarah Palin's foreign affairs experience: 1)Charles Krauthammer July 2009 "...She is NOT a serious candidate for the presidency. She had to go home and study and spend a lot of time on issues in which she was not adept last year and she hasn't. She has to...

This post is written in response to the piece written today by Nicole Coulter at conservatives4palin.com: UNFINISHED BUSINESS: WHY GOVERNOR PALIN WILL MOP THE FLOOR WITH THE GOP, THEN WAX OBAMA http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/03/unfinished-business-why-governor-palin-will-mop-the-floor-with-the-gop-then-wax-obama.html Nicole, whenever I think of the possibility of "regime change", I watch a documentary or movie on Adolf Hitler, and I especially focus on his mesmerizing speeches and speaking ability, the impact his demagoguery had in seducing the masses and how his words and views came to eventually represent the Zeitgeist of the German nation. And if anything, it has always brought home to me how difficult it...

Freepers?.......and Sarah, Madam President, if you are listening............, "IT'S TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH" Campaign slogan or not? I know it is really too long, so maybe "Tell the truth", but I think that has less impact, than "It's time".....

Over at conservatives4palin.com a couple of days ago I went out on a limb in response to a skeptic that felt Sarah Palin would not run for POTUS in 2012 and suggested that I could name 50 reasons why Sarah Palin would run for President. Well as I am a person of my word here are those 50 reasons, some understandable and some a little more obscure. Nevertheless, I believe that sometime since 2008 Sarah Palin has considered each one of these issues as she has gotten closer to making the ultimate decision to throw her hat into the ring....

As 2012 approaches, the State of the Union is grave indeed. Our economy is principally threatened by an explosion of federal spending which, if left unchecked, will bury us all in a red inked sea of hyper-inflation, chronic double digit unemployment and shortages. The America we grew up in will cease to exist. Two things seem to me to be essential: 1) A leader with a steel spine who is both principled and fearless in attacking the Leviathan and all its shibboleths; and 2) A platform, a mandate and policies that will both starve and neuter the federal government. In...

I am so sick and tired of hearing people say that Sarah Palin is not "Presidential". Someone, please tell me what the hell people mean when they say that? I mean, as much as I loved the guy, George W. sure as heck wasn't "Presidential". Barack Obama, the Marxist scumbag that he is, sure as hell isn't Presidential. So, please explain to me what is meant by "not Presidential". And, tell me, who in the GOP is "Presidential"? Do you have to be a Washington "insider" for a gazillion years to be "Presidential"???

Good Lord willing. When Gabrielle Giffords is able to recover enough to read, she will have letters from people like Sarah Palin and many other high profile people. She will also get thousands or millions of letters from regular people all over the world. There will probably be more than Gabrielle can read. But we all need to make sure we ALL send letters and emails. And send letters to all of the victims and their family if we can find a way. Our prayers are working. Keep praying

I have not posted a vanity for awhile now and I post this in good faith. I was thinking earlier about what the politcal lands would look like with Sarah Palin not in the next Presidential race. I don't think it would be good. I think she has a duty to run unless family reasons dictate otherwise. I hope and pray that she is not buying the media narritive that she is unelectable. I know she is a very smart person. But I hope she has more confidence than to give any thought to the idea that she might not...

I watched the debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman. The commercials run by Carly Fiorina were interrupted twice, maybe three times in the post debate broadcast on Channel 4 NBC. Did anybody else catch that? Carly's latest ad is POWERFUL! (She should request an immediate audit of the broadcast, an apology, and a comp of time in the prime time before the election ....

To all who support Sarah Palin. Please do not support or send money to anyone that rejects her in the future. Do not support the RNC. Send your money to SarahPac. To all of those who don't support Sarah Palin. I am seeing far too many people buy into the idea that she is not ready to be President. My question is this, What more does she have to do to be ready ? She already has excutive experiance. She is a great leader. I see no reason that she could not be a great President. What makes you think...

I have two concerns that I think the tea parties should NOT become (we should fight these anyway). 1. they should not primarily become movements to support the Republican Party, alone, and for Republicans to regain political power (though that doesn't preclude any one member or a group from supporting Republicans where they agree with US). 2. These tea parties are not about any ONE individual, either to demonize or for one person (or organization) to "lead", they are about citizenship leadership, spontaneity, and just FED UP Americans, we can not allow any one person to become leader to "dictate"...

Most FReepers have probably seen the previews. Movie heading our way this weekend, a hollywoodish gayish looking terrorist alien, arrives on Earth and begins wreaking havoc with humans. I think I figured out what the story line is gonna be: (so please, nobody has to spend good money to go and support this sort of liberal pap!)

36-0 WHOOOOOOOOO. Thank God, I can go to work Monday. I've been letting my mouth overload my hind-quarters, and it would have been embarassing if the Tide had lost, or even if the Tigers had held it close. Bring on the Gators.

The concept that "Bush hurt McCain" in the election is utter nonsense and fabrication by the MSM. If anything, McCain hurt Bush with his constant obstruction because of his bitterness for the 2000 primary outcome. McCain-Feingold was the ultimate "came back to bite him in the butt" logic, and this sort of stubbornness by McCain also took out a chunk of the Republican party along with it. Case and point: The bailout McCain approved. This was McCain's one chance to stand for conservative principles. Instead, what did he do? He supported it, and furthermore, he extended the idea in the...

Would Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or Obama and his motley crew invest THEIR OWN MONEY (if they could) in the auto industry? The answer would be a RESOUNDING NO. Let's look at a few facts thanks to John Hinderaker of the Powerline Blog and Paul B. Samuelson, courtesy of the Washington Post Co.: ### The market cap for GM, Ford, and Chrysler is approximately $7 billion. ### Ford has a negative book value of equity. ### GM has a huge negative net worth on a book basis of $56 billion. ### Essentially, the market is valuing the companies...

I'm having trouble with my laptop keeping me logged in to FR when I close out of Firefox. My desktop PC and my computer at work keep me logged in when I close out, yet my laptop doesn't. Can any of you help me figure out what is causing this? If you need more info, let me know. Thanks, Andonius

I'm interested in commentarians who would like to contribute to a new conservative weekly (for the time being) outlet called the "Conservative Union" that would operate on a "viral" email model, would be free of charge to those receiving it, and would primarily serve as a means of firming up what conservatives believe and WHY, as well as applying these principles to the issues of the day. There are a lot of conservatives out there who don't really know why they believe what they believe, and would be strengthened by seeing a sound articulation of what they believe and why...

Lost in the 2008 pre-election hysteria was a sobering piece of news out of Iraq. It was revealed, after a precisely-executed plan to maintain secrecy and prevent disclosure, that 550 Tons of Yellow Cake Uranium were shipped out of Iraq to Canada. Why is this event so spectacular? It proved beyond the wildest dreams of even the staunchest skeptic, that Saddam Hussein was clearly pursuring a Weapons of Mass Destruction program, and debunks the chorus of "Bush Lied" accusations from the Democrats. Further, it bolstered the claims of U. S. and British intelligence (which were presented to the United Nations)...

LOOK - I read it here time and time again "well, at least the Republicans will have the filibuster"... NO. We will NOT. The filibuster is a RULE of the Senate; it is NOT a constitutional requirement! Rules are set at the start of each Congress, meaning the new Senate in January can vote on the rule of the filibuster, and change it as desired. Do you think the Democrats are going to let the Republicans hold things up? NEVER. They have the House; they have the Senate. Now they have the White House. They are NOT going to let...

FReepers - let's get a list of congressional leaders in both houses who are RINO's only - those who pretend to be conservative... We need to know who they are - so we can find conservative challengers to boot them out in the primaries... Let's get a grassroots operation going to educate the public on what conservatism is - visit the Reagan Library, visit heritage.org, etc. I totally agree with Rush's comments over the last two days - conservativism is not dead - people will follow conservatism if they see it in action and not in name only.

Obvioulsy the Republican party needs to rebuild quickly. To do so, it must to push the "moderates" and "aisle crossers" to the side and get back to message and platform of conservative principals, ideas and values. They can start by doing the following five, highly doable, things that need to be acomplished by 2010. 1) Elect Mike Pence or Thaddeus McCotter as the party's leader in the House. We need strong, bold leadership that will not bend or break. 2) Appoint Michale Steele as RNC chairman. Not because he is black, but because he is a solid conservative and good...

I suggest that Senator Ted Stevens be removed from office due to his recent felony convictions and that Governor Palin replace him with herself, IMMEDIATELY! Then, have Mitch McConnell appoint her to the energy committee, for example. Then, in 2010, after Senator Palin has 2 years of experience in Washington DC, like Obama did, announce she's running for President in 2012! What do you Freepers think of that??

Well, we don't sit around and mope. It's time to go on defense. Don't give the Republicans in congress any time to consider following "that man's" agenda without hearing from you. It's not much, but I've just sent the following to both my Senators and my Representative: Congratulations on your re-election. Now, you face the biggest trial of your political life: standing up to the socialist agenda of President Elect Obama. Make no mistake about it, Obama plans to take this country far to the left and turn it into something more like the USSR than the land of the...

A special thank you to Noonan, Gerorge Will, Ron Paul, et al. Thank you fools! Thanks for putting us all in danger now from terrorists and the real suppression of conservatism. The Fairness doctrine is coming. Rampant oppression is coming. Taxes being raised is coming. Yes, the ship is now goign to be sinking for good. Obama, Reid and Pelosi will be controlling the direction of this country.

Can someone tell me which judges are conserative in Clark County Nevada and in the State also. If there is a conservative voting list can someone please provide that to me, i would be grateful. This is definitely a swing state and im getting all my family this info. Also, new here so wanted to say hi to everyone :)

Occasionally people mistake me for a retired professor, not encouraged; more often they think I'm a poor speller; in an earlier life I was one of the first kicked off for excessive vanities and pled my way back on (something I'm still unproud of); this weekend I became for the first time a sports nut; not sports in general but one underrated, unappreciated team resurrected by an audacious break with political correctness, rescued by a frustrated coach and victorious climaxes.

I am pleading with people who may have decided not to vote McCain because of the screwed up policies that were not conservative to please reconsider and vote for him. Obama is too far left and I don't believe our country could ever bounce back from him being president. I would also vote third party if I didn't see the danger involved with Obama being president. I do not favor amnesty and I know both guys favor it. But McCain is in favor of securing our border, while Obama calls ICE agents terriorists.